Wednesday, 25 February 2015

Exploring Calvin and Hobbes
is the catalogue for an exhibition by the same name at the Billy
Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum at Ohio State University that ran
in 2014. The exhibit is Bill Watterson’s personal exploration of how the
wonder of Calvin and Hobbes came to be. It includes original art of
Calvin and Hobbes, along with Watterson’s original commentary. The show
also includes art from cartoons and cartoonists that Watterson has
identified as influential in the development of his art, including
Peanuts, Pogo, Krazy Kat, Doonesbury, Pat Oliphant, Jim Borgman, Flash
Gordon, Bloom County, and Steadman. The book also includes an extensive,
original interview with Watterson by Jenny Robb, the exhibition’s
curator.The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum is the repository
of the Bill Watterson Deposit Collection (including the entirety of
Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes artwork).

Stan Lee on his his feelings about the death of Gwen Stacy, and how he responded when he found out Gerry Conway killed her off,
"That’s a very sore subject with me. I created Gwen Stacy and Mary Jane
[Watson], and I wanted to have some fun with them as the series went
along." He then added, "I came back and I found out he had killed Gwen Stacy. I almost killed Jerry Conway."

Jerry Conway feels a little different...
“She was a nonentity, a pretty face. She brought nothing to the mix.
It made no sense to me that Peter Parker would end up with a babe like
that who had no problems,"
"Only
a damaged person would end up with a damaged guy like Peter Parker. And
Gwen Stacy was perfect! It was basically Stan fulfilling Stan’s own
fantasy. Stan married a woman who was pretty much a babe," Conway
continued. "Joan Lee was a very attractive blond who was obviously
Stan’s ideal female. And I think Gwen was simply Stan replicating his
wife, just like Sue Storm was a replication of his wife. And that’s
where his blind spot was. The amazing thing was that he created a
character like Mary Jane Watson, who was probably the most interesting
female character in comics, and he never used her to the extent that he
could have. Instead of Peter Parker’s girlfriend, he made her Peter
Parker’s best friend’s girlfriend. Which is so wrong, and so stupid, and
such a waste. So killing Gwen was a totally logical if not inevitable
choice.”

New Ongoing Series!
"The Bullet's Kiss," Part 1 of 5. When Philadelphia police officer Greg
Hettinger stepped into the middle of a gunfight, hot lead shredded his
face-and he pulled the trigger, blind. Now Greg is waking up in a world
where he's a killer, hopelessly scarred and hooked on painkillers. What
does a man do when he can no longer face the world, yet still wants to
do good? He puts on a hood. Available with a regular die-cut cover by
Michael Gaydos.

SONIC UNIVERSE #73 REG CVR

AVATAR

DARK
GODS #4

BONGO

FUTURAMA COMICS #74

BOOM

ABIGAIL AND THE SNOWMAN #3

ADVENTURE
TIME #37

BEE AND PUPPYCAT #7 MAIN CVRS

CLIVE BARKERS NIGHTBREED #10

CURB STOMP #1

(W) Ryan Ferrier (A) Devaki Neogi (CA) Tula Lotay

WHY
WE LOVE IT: Punk rock isn't dead...yet. Turf wars, breaking rules,
crushing violence, and Black Flag-these are a few of our favorite
things, and we can't wait for Curb Stomp to straightup
knock our teeth out (in a good way).
WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT: Writer Ryan Ferrier (D4VE) is a creator on the
rise, and newcomer Devaki Neogi's art will hook you with its
aggressiveness but keep you coming back with its heart. Curb Stomp is an
unflinching, visceral look at the lengths one woman will go to protect
her friends, her family, and her home-perfect for fans of Rat Queens and
the seminal '70s cult-favorite film The Warriors.
WHAT IT'S ABOUT:
Three gangs. Five girls. No way out. Machete Betty leads a small gang of
women under the selfappointed task of protecting their home of Old
Beach, one of three boroughs surrounding a rich metropolitan city. When
Betty takes the life of a rival gang member in an act of self-defense,
she sets off a chain reaction of retaliation, gang warfare, and unlikely
allies. It's up to the The Fever-Machete Betty, Derby Girl, Bloody
Mary, Daisy Chain, and Violet Volt-to defend their turf at all costs.

GEORGE PEREZ SIRENS #3 MAIN
WRAPAROUND CVR

DARKHORSE

COLDER BAD SEED #5

CONAN THE AVENGER #11

HALO ESCALATION #15

MISTER
X RAZED #1

(W/A) Dean R. Motter (CA) Ty Templeton

Visionary
creator Dean Motter returns with a new masterpiece of retrofuturism!
Radiant City is a metropolis as mysterious as its alleged creator-Mister
X. What should've improved the city left it cursed. Now, Mister X must
watch over the City of Dreams turned City of Nightmares, keeping vigil
during a holiday season that's anything but jolly.

TOMB RAIDER #13

DC

AQUAMAN #39

ARKHAM MANOR #5

BATMAN #39

BATMAN #39 VAR ED

BATMAN 66 #20

BATMAN ETERNAL #47

BODIES
#8

CATWOMAN #39

DEATHSTROKE #5

EARTH 2 WORLDS END #21

FLASH #39

GOTHAM ACADEMY #5

GOTHAM BY MIDNIGHT #4

HE MAN THE ETERNITY WAR #3

JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK #39

MORTAL
KOMBAT X #3

NEW 52 FUTURES END #43

RED LANTERNS #39

SANDMAN OVERTURE #4 SPECIAL
EDITION

SECRET ORIGINS #10

SINESTRO #10

STAR SPANGLED WAR STORIES GI
ZOMBIE #7

SUICIDERS
#1

SUICIDERS
#1 VAR ED

(W/A/CA) Lee Bermejo

In the post-apocalyptic city of New Angeles, killing isn't just a crime - it's entertainment.
When the "big one" finally hit the West Coast, Los Angeles was left in
ruins. And when the U.S. government decided to cut the city loose,
things went from bad to worse. To survive, L.A. did what it does best:
It turned survival into entertainment.
Now, thirty years later, the
city of New Angeles is thriving once more thanks to the blood sport
known as SUICIDERS - a TV series that combines the spectacle of
hand-to-hand combat with elaborate, high-tech obstacles that test each
competitor's ability to survive. But these competitors have an edge:
They've been freakishly enhanced by drugs and technology. The results
are both marvelous and monstrous, as the man called The Saint begins to
rise above his fellow Suiciders.
SUICIDERS is a dark,
post-apocalyptic epic that tells the story of a strange, brutal world,
written and illustrated by Lee Bermejo, the #1 New York Times
best-selling writer/artist behind JOKER, BATMAN: NOEL, LUTHOR and BEFORE
WATCHMEN: RORSCHACH.

DYNAMITE

DJANGO
ZORRO #4

HOLMES
VS HOUDINI #4

JOHN CARTER WARLORD #4 CVR A
BENES MAIN

KING PRINCE VALIANT #1PHANTOM
#2

TWILIGHT ZONE S&S #2 CVR
A VILANOVA MAIN

IDW

D4VE #1

(W) Ryan Ferrier (A) Valentin Ramon (CA) Fiona Staples

Primetime
TV; mortgages; traffic jams. The robots conquered earth, wiping out all
life in the galaxy, but nothing changed. Meet D4VE, the greatest robot
war hero, now trapped behind a desk at a soul-sucking day job. Can
something, somewhere snap him out of this slump? This is D4VE's mid-life
crisis.

DAWN OF PLANET OF APES #4

GALAXY QUEST JOURNEY CONTINUES
#2

JOE FRANKENSTEIN #1

(W) Graham Nolan, Chuck Dixon (A/CA) Graham Nolan

An
action/horror/adventure tale by the creators of Bane, Chuck Dixon and
Graham Nolan! Young Joe Pratt discovers, upon meeting the monster of his
ancestor, that he is the heir to the Frankenstein name. A legacy that
may get him killed if the creatures of the night have their way...

GI JOE SNAKE EYES AGENT OF COBRA
#2

HAUNTED HORROR #15

MUNCHKIN #2

ORPHAN BLACK #1

ORPHAN BLACK #1 SUBSCRIPTION
VAR

(W) John Fawcett & Various (A) Szymon Kudranski (CA) Cat Staggs

One.
Of a kind. Sarah's life was changed dramatically after witnessing the
suicide of a woman who looked just like her. Sarah learned that, not
only were she and the woman clones, but there were others just like
them, and dangerous factions at work set on capturing them all. Now, the
mysterious world of Orphan Black widens, with new layers of the
conspiracy being peeled back in this miniseries by co-creator John
Fawcett!

CRIMINAL COMES TO IMAGE!
To celebrate the return of CRIMINAL to print, BRUBAKER & PHILLIPS
return to their award-winning title for the first time in years for a
48-page special sure the thrill their readers, old and new alike!

It's 1976, and Teeg Lawless is doing 30 days in county jail with a
price on his head, his only safe company from the savagery a beat-up old
comic magazine his dead cellmate left behind. It's CRIMINAL like you've
never seen it before, with a comic within the comic and all those slick
'70s thrills!

"Brubaker and Phillips are the gold standard of the crime graphic novel." - Warren Ellis

CYBER FORCE #11 CVR A
SILVESTRI

EFFIGY
#2

INTERSECT #4 CVR A FAWKES

INTERSECT #4 CVR B SHALVEY
& BELLAIRE

LOW #6

ODYC #3

RASPUTIN
#5

ROCHE
LIMIT #5

SEX #20

SUPERANNUATED
MAN #6

THEYRE
NOT LIKE US #3

THIEF
OF THIEVES #26

WICKED
& DIVINE #8

INDIE

GRAVEYARD
SHIFT #3

PRINCELESS PIRATE PRINCESS #2

MARVEL

ALL NEW CAPTAIN AMERICA FEAR HIM
#4

ALL NEW INVADERS #15

ALL NEW X-MEN #38 BV

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #15 SV

AMAZING X-MEN #17

DAREDEVIL #13

DARTH VADER #2

DEADPOOL #42

FANTASTIC FOUR #643

INHUMAN #12

MARVEL UNIVERSE ULT
SPIDER-MAN WEB WARRIORS #4

MEN OF WRATH BY AARON AND GARNEY
#5

NEW AVENGERS #30 TRO

SECRET AVENGERS #13

SHIELD #3

SPIDER-GWEN #1

(W) Jason Latour (A/CA) Javier Rodriguez

SPIDER-GWEN SPINS INTO HER OWN SERIES!
• BECAUSE YOU DEMANDED IT! The breakout hit of the biggest
Spider-Event of the century is taking comic shops by storm this winter
with her own new ongoing series - SPIDER-GWEN!
• Gwen Stacy is
Spider-Woman, but you knew that already. What you DON'T know is what
friends and foes are waiting for her in the aftermath of Spider-Verse!
• From the fan-favorite creative team that brought you Spider-Gwen's
origin story in EDGE OF SPIDER-VERSE, Jason Latour and Robbie Rodriguez!
Rated T+

• Three stories featuring three Thors!
• Wrestling superstar CM Punk and Rob Guillory (Chew) on Young Thor's
idea for how to prove himself worthy of Mjolnir: a drinking competition!
• Noelle Stevenson (Lumberjanes) and Marguerite Sauvage tell a tale of the new Thor!
• And Jason Aaron on the Girls of Thunder's quest to find the perfect
birthday present for their grandfather, King Thor! How about a new
Garden of Eden?
ONE SHOT/Rated T+

WHY WE LOVE IT: Swifty Lang gave us a whole new look at werewolves with Feeding Ground, a terrifying tale packed with social commentary. When he told us he'd teamed up with newcomer Skuds McKinley for a story of horror on the high seas, we were all in.

WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT: BOOM! Studios and Archaia have been at the forefront of the horror comics revival, with titles like Feeding Ground, Curse, and Clive Barker's Next Testament. Plunder is the next step in that evolution, as fans of Captain Phillips and The Thing will enjoy this mix of current events-inspired adventure and supernatural terror.

WHAT IT'S ABOUT: After facing off with an illegal Chinese vessel, a gang of Somali pirates tries to board what they think is a research vessel, only to find themselves in the midst of a massacre. As their worst nightmares become reality, the 14-year-old boy who went from translator to reluctant pirate not only becomes the key to survival, but must decide for himself how far he is willing to go in the name of self-preservation.

SUICIDE RISK #22

DARKHORSE

BPRD HELL ON EARTH #128

BTVS SEASON 10 #12 MAIN CVR

CREEPY COMICS #19

DARK HORSE PRESENTS 2014 #7 MAIN BA CVR

EI8HT #1

(W) Rafael Albuquerque, Mike Johnson (A/CA) Rafael Albuquerque

Welcome to the Meld, an inhospitable dimension in time where Joshua, a chrononaut, finds himself trapped. With no memory or feedback from the team of scientists that sent him, he can't count on anything but his heart and a stranger's voice to guide him to his destiny.

GROO FRIENDS AND FOES #2

STRAIN NIGHT ETERNAL #6

DC COMICS

BATGIRL #39

BATMAN AND ROBIN #39

BATMAN ETERNAL #46

BATMAN SUPERMAN #19

BATWOMAN #39

EARTH 2 WORLDS END #20

FABLES #149

GREEN LANTERN NEW GUARDIANS #39

INFINITE CRISIS FIGHT FOR THE MULTIVERSE #8

INJUSTICE GODS AMONG US YEAR THREE #10

JUSTICE LEAGUE #39

KITCHEN #4

MULTIVERSITY MASTERMEN #1

W) Grant Morrison (A/CA) Jim Lee, Scott Williams

Superstar writer Grant Morrison joins legendary artist Jim Lee on Earth-10 for one of the most dynamic, action-packed issues of this entire world-shattering series - THE MULTIVERSITY: MASTERMEN!

Imagine a world where the Nazis not only won World War II but went on to direct world culture for the next 60 years with the help of an orphaned, alien super-weapon known as Overman! But hope is not lost! Rising from the ashes of oppression are a diverse band of heroes raging against the fascist regime - a band of heroes known as THE FREEDOM FIGHTERS!

What nightmarish parallel worlds haunt the dreams of Overman? Who is the mysterious figure called Uncle Sam? And when the dust settles, will the actions of Phantom Lady, Black Condor, Human Bomb, Doll Man and The Ray be enough to stop Leatherwing, Blitzen and the other "heroes" of Earth-X?

Learn all this and more in this exciting issue that acts as chapter seven of the critically acclaimed MULTIVERSITY storyline.

NEW 52 FUTURES END #42

RED HOOD AND THE OUTLAWS #39

SENSATION COMICS FEATURING WONDER WOMAN #7

SUPERGIRL #39

SUPERMAN WONDER WOMAN #16

TEEN TITANS #7

TEEN TITANS GO #8

TRINITY OF SIN #5

WONDER WOMAN #39

DYNAMITE

ALICE COOPER #6

DAWN VAMPIRELLA #3

EVIL ERNIE #4 CVR A SEELEY MAIN

KING MANDRAKE MAGICIAN #1

LEGENDERRY GREEN HORNET #1

LONE RANGER VINDICATED #4

PATHFINDER ORIGINS #1

RED SONJA #100 CVR A BENES MAIN

SOLAR MAN OF ATOM #9 CVR A LAMING MAIN

TERMINAL HERO #6

TWILIGHT ZONE #12

VAMPIRELLA FEARY TALES #5

IDW

MONO #3

SONS OF ANARCHY #18

IMAGE

AUTUMNLANDS TOOTH & CLAW #4

BITCH PLANET #3

BURNING FIELDS #2

DEADLY CLASS #11

DRIFTER #4 CVR A KLEIN

FUSE #10

GONERS #5

INVINCIBLE #117

IXTH GENERATION #2

LAZARUS #15

MANIFEST DESTINY #13

MPH #5

REYN #2

RUMBLE #3

SAVAGE DRAGON #202

SECRET IDENTITIES #1

(W) Brian Joines, Jay Faerber (A/CA) Ilias Kyriazis, Charlie Kirchoff

The supergroup known as The Front Line have just invited new hero Crosswind to join them. But what they don't know is that Crosswind is a mole, sent to learn all their secrets. And the Front Line have LOTS of secrets.

Writers BRIAN JOINES and JAY FAERBER and the stunning art team of ILIAS KYRIAZIS and CHARLIE KIRCHOFF bring you classic super-team action and intrigue for the 21st century.

Behind every mask is a secret...

SPARKS NEVADA MARSHAL ON MARS #1

INDIES

LADY MECHANIKA #4

MERCY THOMPSON #5

MARVEL

ALL NEW CAPTAIN AMERICA #4

ALL NEW CAPTAIN AMERICA FEAR HIM #3

AVENGERS WORLD #17 TRO

BLACK WIDOW #15

CAPTAIN AMERICA AND MIGHTY AVENGERS #5

DEATHLOK #5

IRON FIST LIVING WEAPON #9

LEGENDARY STAR LORD #9 BV

LOKI AGENT OF ASGARD #11

MAGNETO #15

MARVEL UNIVERSE GUARDIANS OF GALAXY #1

(W) Joe Caramagna, Mairghread Scott (A/CA) Adam Archer

• Based on the highly anticipated new series coming to Disney XD in 2015, follow the further adventures of the Guardians of the Galaxy!

• With a galaxy full of danger, only the Guardians stand between us and the destruction of everything!

• Featuring adaptations of the upcoming animated series with a mix of screen grab and brand new stories for everyone to enjoy!

MILES MORALES ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #10

MOON KNIGHT #12

MS MARVEL #12

NOVA #27

ROCKET RACCOON #8

SHE-HULK #12

SHE-HULK #12 ANKA FINAL ISSUE VAR

SILK #1

(W) Robbie Thompson (A) Stacey Lee (CA) Dave Johnson

Cindy Moon exploded out of her bunker and into the Marvel Universe when we first learned that she had been bitten by that same radioactive spider in the first arc of AMAZING SPIDER-MAN. She then went on to save Peter Parker's life (more than once!) and traverse the Spider-verse alongside Spider-Woman. Now, as SILK, Cindy is on her own in New York City, searching for her past, defining her own future, and webbing up wrong-doers along the way! Robbie Thompson (writer from TV's Supernatural) fills this new ongoing series with his unique blend of antics and feels. Featuring stunning covers by Eisner Award winner Dave Johnson and interiors by future superstar Stacey Lee.

Young Readers Graphic Novels

Creator Profile Jack King Kirby

created a new grammar of storytelling and a cinematic style of motion. Once-wooden characters cascaded from one frame to another — or even from page to page — threatening to fall right out of the book into the reader’s lap. The force of punches thrown was visibly and explosively evident. Even at rest, a Kirby character pulsed with tension and energy in a way that makes movie versions of the same characters seem static by comparison.

Creator Profile - Steve Ditko

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Ditko described his and Stan Lee's contributions in a mail interview with Gary Martin published in Comic Fan #2 (Summer 1965): "Stan Lee thought the name up. I did costume, web gimmick on wrist & spider signal".

Creator Profile Alan Moore

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Alan was born in Northampton, England to brewery worker Ernest Moore and printer Sylvia Doreen. He lived in a poor working class area, and, after passing the Eleven plus exam, attended Northampton Grammar School, but in 1970, at the age of 17, he was expelled for dealing LSD, later describing himself as "one of the world's most inept LSD dealers".With his first wife, Phyllis, he had two daughters, Amber and Leah. The couple also had a mutual lover, Deborah. In time, Phyllis, Deborah and the two children left Moore. On 12 May 2007, he married Melinda Gebbie, with whom he has worked on several comics.He currently lives in Northampton. He is a vegetarian, an anarchist,a practicing magician and occultist, and he worships a Roman snake-deity named Glycon, which he acknowledges to be a "complete hoax"